JADE:jeez you sure have some issuesJADE:honestly it has become very tiresome listening to this sort of thingJADE:i thought davesprite had problemsJADE:his issues i could kind of understandJADE:i thought you might be different, being the alpha dave and allJADE:but noJADE:you might be even more messed up inside than he was!DAVE: whatDAVE: why are you dragging that guy into thisDAVE: what happened with you and him anywayJADE:none of your business >:pDAVE: it kind of isDAVE: hes bird meDAVE: that clearly means i have a right to knowJADE:that doesnt make any sense!DAVE: you said he had issuesDAVE: what issuesJADE:augh!JADE:forget i mentioned itDAVE: was he talking shit about me the whole time or somethingDAVE: i know he resents me for being the real daveJADE:dont say that, you arent the real dave!JADE:well you are, but phrasing it like that is so mean!JADE:hes just as real as you, and when you imply he isnt you sound like a jerk!!!DAVE: man i knew itDAVE: i knew he was poisoning your view of me all those yearsDAVE: and i wasnt there to say anything or defend against his slander so now of course you think im a neurotic doucheJADE:THE ONLY REASON I THINK YOURE A NEUROTIC DOUCHE IS BECAUSE YOURE ACTING LIKE ONE NOW!!!DAVE: yeah but i only started acting like a neurotic douche like half way through this conversationDAVE: you clearly had an axe to grind with me from the start and i want to know whyDAVE: what did i ever do to deserve this shit from youJADE:YOU BROKE MY HEART!!!!!!DAVE: whatDAVE: i didDAVE: whenJADE:ok not youJADE:davesprite didJADE:BUT YOURE BASICALLY THE SAME GUY!DAVE: whoa no wayDAVE: thats such an unfair characterization we are completely different dudesJADE:you just said you had a right to know what happened between us because, and i quote, "hes bird me"DAVE: no i knowDAVE: i was playing the "hes bird me" card because it was convenient to whatever it was i was saying at the timeDAVE: i forget what point i was making when i said thatJADE:*growl*DAVE: but thats not the point im making nowDAVE: he and me are justDAVE: crazy different yoDAVE: hes got fuckin wings!!!DAVE: he also presumably takes a dump and lays eggs out of the same ghostly holeDAVE: ...DAVE: ew man whyd i have to go thereJADE:*SNARL*DAVE: ok if he broke up with you or whatever that was because of his dumb bird issues not my issuesDAVE: theres no way i would have done that to youDAVE: my issues are totally different and probably way more seriousDAVE: i dont see anyone ordering him to master time travel or trying to pawn brittle welsh swords off on him do youDAVE: nobody is telling him hes got to murder the incredible hulkDAVE: did you tell him hes got to murder the incredible hulk jadeDAVE: no i think notJADE:*sigh*

So what do we call this pause? I've been batting ideas around all day. We could go with the obvious choice, the MINIGIGAPAUSE. Or maybe, MEGAPAUSE 2: BACK IN THE MEGASADDLE. Or if that makes too much sense, we could always settle on the MICROTERAPAUSE. As you can see, there are so many incredibly intelligent and meaningful things we could call this pause. Deciding how to refer to the pause is an exercise that I will leave to the reader. Feel free to discuss the matter with friends. Or strangers. Anyone who will listen really. If they start to run away, I strongly recommend you chase them.

Why don't we say that A665 begins on 4/13. That's a fun number that we all can get excited about. I have a lot of catch-up work to do between now and then. Not the least of which is drawing the actual content to be posted. But also a lot of gamedev work. Game production is rolling pretty hot right now. Stuff is being churned out almost faster than I can keep track of. Did I mention? I accidentally started running a game studio a little while ago. Whoops, sorry about that. There are all these people being paid to make things happen, and I have to be like "Yeah, keep doing that stuff, everybody." It's getting pretty easy to lose track of how many people work for What Pumpkin. My last estimate was somewhere between 30 and 1000. The true figure is a very frisky moving target.

A6A6A5, a.k.a. Caliborn's Masterpiece, is actually done. It's probably better to hold off posting it until 4/13, when more content will soon follow aftewards. I am sure pausing on that note for months would mess with your head a lot more than the note we're already pausing on. I sometimes feel I have at least a modest responsibility to manage your sanity. It'll be tough sitting on this content though. Tougher than sitting on all of A664 for the better part of a year. I don't think it is out of line to describe it as the best material this website will ever exhibit. It will be all down hill from there, in every direction. Even up.

Speaking of sanity management, way back when, I was pretty on the fence about posting A664 spaced out over months like I did, vs. all at once. Doing the latter in hindsight probably would have been a fucked up thing to do to the internet though. The GAME OVER fallout alone was a bit much as it was. Including it in tandem with the rest of it? Not sure what to make of that. Let's review the CONTENT CRUSH that would have entailed. Bad Anime -> Game Over -> Sadstuck -> Lowas Quest -> 100 retconned panels of oil -> A bunch of other shit -> Punky Serket -> Fantroll Storytime -> 8 password pages -> The Kiss On Horse Mountain -> and finally -> The Punchline. You know, that's an awful lot of baloney to publish. I think the fell-swoop reaction to all that would have been quite a thing to behold, but also, perhaps an irresponsible thing to do to a hapless fanbase after a year in hibernation. I'm told that in 2015, young people are heavily susceptible to "the feels", and trifling with those forces could be injurious to their future development. Wait, did that just sound like something your grandpa would say? Mother fuck, where did I put my cane. Oh right, I snapped it in half from shaking it at the sky.

I may have been in the process of making a point there, but we're going to have to pick this up another time. The comic isn't going to pause itself!!!

Over the last couple months, I have been surreptitiously collapsing several update horses into single, bigger horses. This means A6A6I4 is going to end a little sooner than previously advertised. Same total page count, but finishing sooner. Please consult the important horse calendar below.

So what happens when A6A6I4 is done? I'm not quite sure yet. I'm still working on everything that comes after that. I've written it mostly, but haven't drawn anything yet. There will almost certainly be another pause, but I'm not sure how long it will be yet. I will let you know after 1/19.